Mastodawn

Reading Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle and then learning the 998 tattoos and Viking gang within the LA Sheriff’s Department are not fictional is very scary. https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/los-angeles-sheriff-gangs-cliques-subgroups #acab #LASheriffsDepartment #998 #policeGangs #LosAngeles #VikingsGang #Lynwood #TheBezzle #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic

Gangs? Cliques? Subgroups? Call Them What You Will — There've Been 18 (Yes, 18) In The LA Sheriff's Department

The report identified 11 "deputy gangs" and seven "subgroups." Some have tattoos, hand signals, and rituals that are similar to a criminal street gang, it said.

LAist

Gladwyn d’Souza Aug 15, 2023

https://apnews.com/article/kenosha-black-applebees-suspects-bathroom-fe581d4434ab7425f4747505220ba3a4

#abolishthepolice: a #Kenosha officer punching a #Black man the officer mistakenly believed was involved in a hit-and-run crash.

#AbolishQualifiedImmunity #ReformTheMedia #PoliceGangs #statesanctionedviolence #PriveledgeWitness

Kenosha police arrested a Black man at Applebee's. The actual suspects were in the bathroom

Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have launched an internal investigation after a video posted to social media appears to show an officer punching a Black man the officer mistakenly thought was involved in a hit-and-run crash. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the crash happened on July 20. Police said witnesses told them two men and a woman carrying a child fled toward an Applebee's restaurant. A restaurant employee directed officers toward a man holding a baby. An officer appears to punch the man as officers arrested him. Police then discovered the people responsible for the crash hiding in the restaurant's bathroom.

AP News